In contrast to Barack & Hillary...

...whose initial stance was to blame it all on a shoddily made Youtube video..."A short distance from the American compound, two Americans were sleeping. They were in Libya as independent contractors working an assignment totally unrelated to our embassy. They also happened to be former Navy SEALs. When they heard the noise coming from the attack on our embassy, as you would expect from highly trained...

Ask a Journo-Canadian

Alright... statistically anomalous "weather porn" fatality goes front page, above the fold...A woman in her 50s has died after flying debris hit her on the head near Keele Street and St. Clair Avenue, according to Toronto EMS.Three homicides in three days, including brutal beating death... not so much...The unidentified woman’s body was so badly injured that the cause of death must be established...

"I did not have sex..."

"...with that woman, er... terrorist group..."(Reuters) - Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show. The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under...

So, David... I guess that's a no, huh?

The Great Redistributor passes on a chance to humiliate the right and pick their pockets for five million dollars for a charity of his choice...Wow... that must be some secr...

If only there wasn't that whole...

...murdering & wounding thing looming in the background...Not dwelling on the bad stuff... I guess it's just part of the service...“I believe he has the tools and the potential to turn his life around,” said Husbands’ lawyer, Moshe Micha, who sought a six-month jail sentence.Yeah... if only someone...

A Reader writes

LOST AND FOUND... yet another tale of the incivil service...I'm a fan of your blog, and I've contacted you once or twice before. I wanted to share my gun registry story with you, as I spent about an hour on the phone with them yesterday. My license expired on August 1st. Six weeks before that I dutifully filled out the paperwork to renew it, got a passport-style photo, etc and mailed it off. Everything...

Here's an interesting juxtaposition...

...Prime Minister Harper speaks up for Jamaican-Canadian community...“It has come to my attention that since July, many in this community, Toronto’s Jamaican-Canadian community, feel that they live in the shadow of criminality arising out of incidents like the Danzig Street and Eaton Centre shootings,” Mr. Harper told a packed hall at the Jamaican-Canadian Association, in a multicultural suburban...

Why bother with all the fuss of...

...reporting actual "NEWS"... when you can allow the great unwashed to suckle on the unbearable misery of other people's grief? ••• It's right there in front of you..."Don’t I have any compassion?" "Do you mean tossing cheap carnations onto the 'makeshift' memorial piled high with teddy bears and...

Why I vote Conservative

Reason #114..."For good or ill, Canada has now chosen to defect from the diplomatic travesty that has obliged ordinary Canadians to put up with Khomeinist thugs in their midst and to abstain from the diplomatic obsequies that require Canadian diplomats to smile when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini’s appointments secretaries spit in their faces." "Of course it’s not enough. It's merely an act of...

How do criminal defense lawyers...

...sleep at night? • TORONTO • After Wiwchar's arrest in the Little Italy shooting, his lawyer Christopher Avery refuted police claims that he was from B.C. and said he was "shocked" to be charged with first-degree murder. "He has no idea why he's been charged. He finds the entire experience surreal,"...

Another poor, oppressed "holy warrior"...

...thwarted in his quest for justice...A Bangladeshi student who allegedly planned to blow up the US Federal Reserve is the son of a prominent banker. He was arrested on Wednesday after he allegedly tried to remotely detonate a fake 1,000-pound car bomb outside the building in lower Manhattan. His family, from a middle-class neighbourhood of Dhaka, wept as they called the arrest "a racist conspiracy"...

Viscious premeditated gang murder...

...they'll be out in a year... • TORONTO • Three teens who murdered a pal by shooting him (4 times) in the back and then dumping his bullet-riddled body in the Humber River have been handed the maximum sentence. As he lay on the ground suffering from the gunshot wounds, he was also stabbed by a pair of scissors several times in the neck.Yup... that "justice" system is a real brute... look at...

I'm with Terry Nelson...

...let's just stop pumping billions of taxpayer dollars into these hellholes every year...A former Manitoban First Nations leader has raised the ire of Canadian officials with his appearance on Iranian television comparing aboriginal reserves to concentration camps. Terry Nelson, former chief of Manitoba's Roseau River Anishinabe, made the comments during an interview on Sunday with Iranian Press...

He looks you right in the face...

...and he lies...“We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system, but we also passed a historic law to end taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts for good,” Obama said in Miami. According to the Congressional Budget Office, however, the government will lose about $24 billion on the bailout. CBO reported that as of now $65 billion in TARP funds remain outstanding.It gets better. Yet...

Ask a Toronto City Councillor

In these troubled times, it's only natural to look to our political leadership for wisdom and direction...While most of her colleagues on the Toronto and East York community council slammed a casino, Bailao gave a speech that left the door open to the idea and called for more information. “I’m definitely keeping an open mind on the issue,” Bailao told colleagues toward the end of the five-hour meeting....

Scratch a Liberal leader...

...find a humble, unassuming hero..."Before he took over the party, he said in his resignation announcement on Monday, the Liberals had won only a single election in 50 years."So after three terms & almost 10 years... does this mean they'll stop blaming everything on Mike Harris? I doubt ...

What's a murder or two...

...among friends...Tensions between community members and the police, however, may make it more difficult for homicide investigators to do their job. McLane said they are trying to do what they can to improve their relationships with the public. "I think what we have to do is prove that we’re worthy of trust."Yup... there you have it. Two dead, 23 maimed and it's the fault of the police. Thank...

No [fill in the blank] left behind

In Dalton's "Dare to Dream" Ontario, there is no goal so lofty, no ambition so ethereal, we cannot slavishly pander to it...Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in Canada to allow transgendered people to change the gender on their birth certificates without sex-change surgery. “It’s a huge decision. It’s a remarkably positive decision. This is an important victory,” Susan Gapka, chair of the...

The whole world is watching...

...and still, he looks you right in the face AND LIES... Apparently, he just can't stop himself... hell, maybe by now the ol' whoremonger actually believes it...Then Sen. Biden voted for the Afghanistan resolution on Sept. 14, 2001 which authorized “the use of United States Armed Forces against those...

That why we call him...

...Premier McSlippery...Ontario electricity users are on the hook for more than $700 million in extra fees because of the McGuinty government’s decision to move a gas-fired generator out of Oakville. Provincial officials say that number is much too big. However, one provincial source, who did not want to be named, concedes that the cost of moving the plant from Oakville to the site of the Lennox...

Never a Bernie Farber around...

...when you need one..."The Chiefs who were scared of the Jewish media lined up to condemn an old man who made a mistake but never once did I hear those same Chiefs condemn the Jewish writers who penned hate filled articles against our people. My question to the Chiefs who condemned Ahenakew is what...

I always get a little nostalgic...

...when I see San Romanoway in the news... I lived in one of the buildings for a year back in the 80's...Toronto Police were called just after midnight to 25 San Romanoway, an apartment building at Jane St. and Finch Ave. W., and found the man suffering from a fatal gunshot wound in an 11th-floor apartment. It’s...

All You Need Is Love

At Canada's nationally subsidised broadcaster, it seems a murder (and putting a stray slug in a 13 year-old's noggin) is merely the subtext..."I haven't given up on my brother, I never have and as much as people would like me to I never will," she said. "I've been trying to do as much as I could, to like just influence him even in this time right now and just to basically remain positive."Yup......

Supreme Court of Canada legalises...

...possession of hand grenades... provided you double-dare pinky swear not to fiddle with the pin...The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network said it is unhappy the court's ruling continues to require that HIV-positive people lower their viral count to avoid prosecution for non-disclosure. "We are shocked and dismayed that even the responsible use of a condom does not protect a person living with HIV from...

Not a single taxpayer dollar will...

...be left unspent...More schools will get drop-in resource centres as part of the Ontario government’s response to last summer’s killings on Danzig St. in Scarborough, the worst mass shooting in Toronto’s history. The new locations will go in “high-needs communities” to be identified by local school boards . The July 18 shooting on Danzig St., near Kingston Rd. and Lawrence Ave., left two dead...

Dear Occupant

"For the past several years, possibly throughout his term, Barack Obama has sent the same form letter to the parents of all fallen soldiers, Marines and Navy SEALs." ••• "But Obama did send rapper Heavy D’s family a personal letter of condolence." •••Hope, change... teleprompter & autopen. ********** RELATED: Those lyin', cheatin' Tea Part... ...wait a minute...The video then cuts to a...

If only Stephen Harper...

...was a lesbian...Does anyone actually have a list of HRC complaints that have been deni...

Who says stupidity...

...isn't a death penalty offense? • Deerfield Beach • "Oh yeah, any vomiting is an automatic DQ," the store cautioned in a Facebook post prior to the revolting competiti...

Grappling with "authenticity"...

...I mean gawd forbid anyone actually uses the words "fraud" or "hypocrite"...It was only the other night that CBC National's bucket-o-punditry... including Andrew Coyne & Chantal Hebert... actually said... out loud... that the Annointed One's continuing habit of making one set of remarks to the...

Unlike the rest of us, who are...

... apparently just fine with... and I'm quoting verbatim here... "a legacy of oppression, imperialism and racism."Now... I'm no fan of the monarchy... but would I give up my Canadian citizenship to stick a thumb in Prince Charles' eye? I think not."A man who refused to take the oath of citizenship,...

Ask a "Professional" Journalist

Well, I guess that explains why every media outlet in Canada has a full-time "Justin" cheerleader/correspondent... Okay... brace yourselves...For Asher Anidjar, the arrival of fall isn't marked by turning leaves or a chilly breeze, but a steaming seasonal drink. Recently, though, when he headed to his...

Ask a Journo-Canadian

I remember when "news"papers weren't all about deifying the offspring of political hacks and mounting monumental "mellow yellow-like feats" of social engineering... And remember... if poor little waif Omar touches off a rush hour nail bomb on the Yonge-Bloor subway... it's all on you Canada..."When...

You feelin' safer yet?

'Cos you're sure as shit payin' for it...It started small in late 2004 when former mayor David Miller was pretty much embarrassed into dealing with the rash of guns and gang violence in the city. Back then, the city’s Community Safety Plan had a mere 10 staff and less than $600,000 in operating funds attached to it to deal with seven priority neighbourhoods Nevertheless, it took no time to ascertain...

Compare and contrast

Just something to remember the next time you hit that voting booth... -- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Bob Rae made the following statement today on the repatriation of Omar Khadr: “Omar Khadr’s return to Canada is long overdue. Mr. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was a child soldier. It is extremely unfortunate that it took the Conservative government this long to fulfil its responsibility to bring him...